Mark Thiele and Ralph Loura discuss the challenges and importance of modernizing legacy applications to enhance performance, innovation, and cost-effectiveness. Modernization impacts infrastructure, processes, and customer experience and requires a strategic approach to prioritize applications based on their business significance. A cloud-native platform can streamline the management of both legacy and modern applications, significantly reducing infrastructure footprint and improving deployment speed.

1. Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera
&
Ralph Loura, Chief Technology Officer at Rodan + Fields
December, 7th 2016
IT Modernization Doesn’t Mean
You Leave Your Legacy Apps Behind

2. Today’s Speakers
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Mark Thiele
Chief Strategy Officer
Apcera
@mthiele10
Ralph Loura
Chief Technology Officer
Rodan + Fields
@ralphloura

3. Rodan + Fields
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Rodan + Fields® is a prestige anti-aging
skincare brand built on innovative dermatology-
inspired skincare products, combined with a
unique go-to-market model known as social or
community commerce.
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4. What’s the Challenge with Legacy Applications?
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5. Why is Modernization Important?
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๏ Fulfills demand for innovation
‣ Speed and agility
‣ Competition in the market place
๏ Controlling Costs
‣ Licensing costs
‣ Infrastructure costs
‣ Opportunity costs
๏ Need for IT to be proactive
‣ Legacy apps require “keeping the lights
on” or “fire fighting” approach
๏ New ways to consume information
“Optimizing Application Development and Maintenance
Can Cut Costs by More than 50 Percent”
-Gartner
Modernization refers to the conversion of the application, its architecture or its
environment to improve performance, innovation and cost.

6. Modernization Affects More Than Just the Application
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Legacy Application Modernized Application
Unique build, deployment and configuration Standardized build, deployment and configuration
Infrastructure dependencies Infrastructure agnostic
Rarely uses automation Based heavily on automation
Tend to have siloed, waterfall lifecycle management More fluid, agile DevOps lifecycle management
Modernization can impact infrastructure, processes, culture and the customer experience.
Technology is merely an enabler of modernization.

7. Beware of the Modernization “Cargo Cult”
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8. Identifying Applications for Modernization
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๏ Every application is different and has a different impact on the business.
๏ Determine target state for your legacy applications.
๏ Prioritize applications that have significant impact on the business.
๏ Prioritize applications that are easier to modernize.
๏ Some applications are NOT worth modernizing.

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10. PLAN DESIGN EXECUTE RUN
Modernization Approaches
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11. A Platform for the Modernizing IT Organization
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๏ Cloud-Native & Legacy
‣ One platform for all your applications.
๏ Secure By Default
‣ No open doors. Ever.
๏ True Hybrid
‣ All your infrastructure as a single cluster.
๏ Advanced Networking
‣ Isolation and control at the workload level.
๏ Full Stack
‣ Everything you need in a single solution.
๏ Turnkey
‣ Production ready out-of-the-box.

12. The Apcera Container Management Platform
For Cloud-Native and Legacy Applications
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Any Application
Any Infrastructure
Composition, Orchestration & Deployment
Networking + Nano-Segmentation
Application Service Management
Policy & Enforcement
Cloud-Native + Legacy๏ Linux-based x86
๏ Including Docker

13. 3rd Platform
Commerce, Analytics, Digital Marketing and API
Supply Chain & LogisticsPLM QMS
Conversation
as a Platform
Cognitive Computer Machine Learning Virtual Reality
IoT
Hybris & SFDC, etc. Data Lake Advanced Analytics API Capabilities
ERP System Operational Reporting
Rodan + Fields Platform Strategy
Differentiated
Customer/Consultant
Experience
ERP & Reporting
Parity with Luxury
Brands Differentiated
for Direct Channel
reHABIT @ focus

14. In a public cloud platform,
different tenants use pooled shared
physical resources.
In a multi-tenant cloud platform,
a single instance of a software application
serves multiple customers.
In a private cloud,
all of the computing resources are ours.
This was our approach until 2016.
MONITOR
POLICY
ENFORCEMENT
SECURITY
PROCESS
PLAYBOOK
DEVOPS
TOOL CHAIN
Rodan + Fields Compute Strategy

15. Results from the Apcera Platform
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๏ SAP Hybris — Packaged E-commerce Application
‣ Reduced infrastructure footprint by over 50% (24 servers to 7)
‣ Fourteen F5 Load Balancers no longer needed
‣ Deployment now in under 10 minutes
‣ Increase the number of deploys from 4 to 8 per day
with

16. Learn More at
www.apcera.com
Q&A
More questions?
@Apcera
info@apcera.com